❯ cat about.md
The full picture.
Everything a recruiter or client would want to know — minus the corporate formatting.
// identity
handle
Py
real name
Nathan
location
Potchefstroom, South Africa
availability
open to work
// what I do
I'm a full-stack engineer — emphasis on full. Frontend, backend, data pipelines, scripting, automation, APIs. If the project needs it, I build it. If I haven't built it before, I figure it out. That's not a cliché — it's how I've operated since day one.
I don't need hand-holding or exhaustive specs. Give me the problem, the constraints, and room to move.
// stack
languages
tools & frameworks
domains
~ the other side
I'm also a published author, writing under py. I write fiction, lyrical fantasy, and poetry — worlds built with the same deliberateness I bring to software. My current novel-in-progress, Hailey's Song, follows a girl who has lost her name in a place where sound is punished and identity dissolves, and the grief-broken man who walks in to find her.
Writing taught me to think in systems, care about the person on the other end, and not ship something until it actually works. The two practices feed each other more than most people expect.
// working with me
I own my work
I don't need to be managed into doing a good job. If something is mine, it gets done right.
I communicate clearly
Years of writing made me good at saying exactly what I mean. No jargon fog, no ambiguity.
I learn fast
Give me a new domain, a new tool, a new problem. I'll be productive in it faster than you'd expect.
I ship things
I care about the end result. Not just clean code, but something that actually works and gets delivered.
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